Why bother?

July 6, 2013

The seduction and abandonment of Minnesota

by Steve Timmer

Maybe a photograph will steal your soul

July 5, 2013

Or your identity anyway

by Steve Timmer

Scalia, um, explained

July 3, 2013

There were two op-eds in the Star Tribune on July 3rd, purporting to unpack Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s thinking. One is by Cass Sunstein, and the other is by Noah Feldman. They’re both professors at the Harvard Law School. I am sure the professors are much more familiar with the oeuvre of the longest […]

by Steve Timmer

Repealing the Civil War

June 27, 2013

One Supreme Court decision at a time

by Steve Timmer

Perhaps now we can get to the bottom of this

June 24, 2013

Did Dave work hard for the money?

by Steve Timmer

“I think there has been an incredible double standard here”

June 23, 2013

Sings the Paynesville Warbler

by Steve Timmer
Soldiers carrying coffin

What the Chaplain said at Dover

June 20, 2013

You do not want to go to Dover, at least not as a civilian. To be more specific you don’t want to go there to receive the remains of military death. Of course under the Bush administration you could not go there. No way did they want the public riled up about these deaths. But […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt
Crusing Bears

The Mad World of Climate Change Denial

June 19, 2013

Book review: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism; Mankind and Climate Change Mania (by Steve Goreham, New Lenox Books, 2012) (Note from Tony and Steve: Lois is a DLer and told us one evening recently about this absurd book that had been sent to her as an environmental chemistry instructor. We said, why don’t […]

by Lois Schadewald

Teach for America extends the franchise!

June 18, 2013

In a bold and entirely unpredicted move, Teach for America officials have decided to extend the franchise across the board. According to a TFA spokester: With racial gaps everywhere you look: education, income, housing, health care, we thought to ourselves, “Heck, why limit our horizon to just K-12 education?” The Teach for America model will […]

by Steve Timmer
Roger Goodell

Roger Goodell defends legacy of racist

June 13, 2013

There are four teams in Major League Baseball and the National Football League that still use Native American themed names and imagery for their team identities; the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins. While they all have their own specific problems (Chief Wahoo immediately comes to mind), one of them stands […]

by Tony Petrangelo
NSA headquarters

Is the Fourth Estate actually a Kangaroo Court?

June 11, 2013

What these three names, Ellsberg, Manning and Snowden, have in common is that they were, are, or will be tried in the press well before they were, are, or will be tried in a court of law. In each case it is about secrets. Reflecting back across the years the trial that never occurred, but […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt

We are not amused

June 9, 2013

Say Michael Brodkorb and Greg Walsh

by Steve Timmer